Satellite sounder-based OLR-, cloud- And atmospheric temperature climatologies for climate analyses

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6233 II, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Molnar, Gyula I ^a   Susskind, Joel ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud parameters; Clouds; Infrared; Inter annual variability; Outgoing longwave radiation; Remote sensing; Satellite climatic trends; Satellite sounders

Indexed keywords

CLOUD PARAMETERS; GLOBAL ENERGY BALANCE; INTER ANNUAL VARIABILITY; OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION (OLR); SATELLITE CLIMATIC TRENDS; SATELLITE SOUNDERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; INFRARED DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

WEATHER SATELLITES;

EID: 33748656953     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.665046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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